Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

I. v. To hit the golf ball in the angle between the head and shaft of the club (Sc. 1950 J. C. Jessop Teach yourself Golf 130). Vbl.n. socketing, such a stroke.
Sc. 1952 Bulletin (20 Aug.) 11: He was afflicted with an attack of socketing, which, to the golfer, is like toothache in the words of Burns, “the hell o' all diseases.” . . . Even if we don't socket again in the course of the round, there is always the lingering fear.

II. n. A golf stroke of this kind.
Sc. 1952 Bulletin (20 Aug.) 11: The socket is rather like that old-fashioned handicap — the “bowff.”